🗳️ With the #GeneralElection now less than a month away, the contest is on to win the vote of small businesses and the self-employed.
📆 We've teamed up with two other business organisations to host the UK small business hustings, with @kevinhollinrake, @sarahjolney1, and @jreynoldsMP on 17 June.
Sign up to attend online or in person 🔗 https://t.co/RiOT5ukHL6
If you run a small firm, are self-employed, or employ members of staff there are a range of tax reliefs and allowances available from HMRC 💭
✅ According to FSB research, many small business owners are unaware of the reliefs available to them.
Take a look at the guidance 🔗
https://t.co/bUWHhKucdS
In today's #Budget2024, we're pleased to see the Chancellor introduce a package of small business support, but small firms still face serious challenges.
✅ Our calls to increase the #VAT threshold, cut self-employed National Insurance Contributions (#NICs), and extend the Recovery Loan Scheme have been listened to, after extensive campaigning from FSB.
📈 However, employment costs remain high, and many small employers were hoping for an uplift in the Employment Allowance.
Read our full reaction 🔗 https://t.co/HmXk6DSAx8
🎉The FSB Business Bootcamp will come to Worcestershire for the first time on Wednesday 05 June.
💪With a theme of 'Power Up Your Potential', it will be a fantastic, feature packed day of networking, exhibiting and learning.
ℹ️More info available here: https://t.co/3LW6o9fi1x
⭐📣Exciting news! The Dulverton Trust Fund is relaunching to support local needs in West Midlands and Warwickshire! Grants up to £5,000 are available for orgs focussing on youth opportunities, welfare, conservation, and heritage. Apply now: https://t.co/H5kXlAPSaF
Have you reserved your FREE place at our next FSB Herefordshire & Worcestershire virtual networking session?
It's next Wednesday morning, 9:30 - 10:30am and all are welcome!
More detail here👀👇
https://t.co/ObL72QVUCa
Just a few days left to enter the #FSBawards 2024! 🌟
🎉 Free for all small businesses and the self-employed in the UK
🚀 12 different categories, from start-up to community
🥂 UK final at @WGBpl
Entries close on 11 February 2024.
Enter now: https://t.co/Hf8toHFYHF
Come along to our networking at The Foundry, Poole, with guest speaker Tim Colman who will be speaking on key aspects of the Procurement Act as well as how the "Young Reforms" have helped over the past few years.
⏰4pm-6pm⏰
📅7 February 2024📅
🎫 https://t.co/7BKorLLPic 🎫
📢 It's not long now until our next Hospitality Sector Networking session! ☕
We'll be joined by Jennie Riding, owner of Artlegarth Country Lodges in Cumbria - to look at emerging trends & their impact in 2024. 📈
We're taking bookings now! 🖊️👇https://t.co/8nr5ERKRd5
Running your own business is rewarding, but you don’t have to face the challenges alone.
With FSB by your side, you’ll have all the support and expertise you need.
Explore our member benefits: https://t.co/vESFYB7R76 or DM me to arrange an informal chat!
#SmallBusinessBigWins
Small firms are central to rural communities - but as @NICRErural's new report examines, in line with our previous research, rural SMEs are often held back by challenges like poor transport links and digital connectivity 💻
Read the full report ⤵️
https://t.co/DjVu4NyiDp
🗣️ It was good to see the Chancellor explain how he'd listened to FSB in the run-up to today's #AutumnStatement.
👷🏾♀️He announced decisive action on late payments, business rates, and self-employed taxation 👇
Our latest national Small Business Index report is published today, showing that skills shortages are still a major barrier to growth for small firms.
The findings specific to the West Midlands region are available here👉 https://t.co/8ePDVVOmFp
@FSBWarksandCov @FSBStaffsWMids
#StormBabet is bringing extreme rain and winds to the UK -particularly across Northern Ireland and Scotland.
⛈️ If you're worried about flooding in your area, these five steps can help to protect your small business:
https://t.co/xmApAkTFoW
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We are really looking forward to hosting our event this week:
Reusing and repurposing empty space on our High Streets with examples from #Shropshire#Telford#Wellington#Bridgnorth at the Shrewsbury Museum with guest speaker @Ojay CEO of the Association for Town Centre Managers